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Feature Request: Add the possiblity to scrape the environmentally continuous search-engine Ecosia #67

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tomwwabo opened this issue Feb 22, 2020 · 1 comment

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@tomwwabo
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tomwwabo commented Feb 22, 2020

The search-engine https://www.ecosia.org/ returns more or less the same searches as bing.com, but additionally donates money to plant a tree for every 45 searches done. Which means by scraping your app can actively contribute to reduce the effects climate-change.

@tomwwabo tomwwabo changed the title Feature Request: Scrape Ecosia.org Feature Request: Ad the possiblity to scrape the search-engine Ecosia.org Feb 22, 2020
@tomwwabo tomwwabo changed the title Feature Request: Ad the possiblity to scrape the search-engine Ecosia.org Feature Request: Ad the possiblity to scrape the environmentally continuous search-engine Ecosia Feb 22, 2020
@tomwwabo tomwwabo changed the title Feature Request: Ad the possiblity to scrape the environmentally continuous search-engine Ecosia Feature Request: Add the possiblity to scrape the environmentally continuous search-engine Ecosia Feb 22, 2020
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By doing so you'd make Ecosia pay more money for search results and increase their server costs. Each time you search for something on Ecosia and do not click the ads. You're the cost. By performing an attack on their servers as you're suggesting here would benefit only Bing. If you'd build a bot that would click the ads. Well, you'd also hurt Ecosia because advisers have mechanisms for analyzing the traffic and you'd basically make Ecosia clicks less valuable.

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